Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Contents -- Day Time -- Twelve Notes for a Light Song of Light -- This Zinc Roof -- Some Definitions for Song -- Until you too have journeyed -- Some Definitions for Light (I) -- If this short poem stretches -- Notice to the Public, Please Observe -- Some Definitions for Light (II) -- The Longest Song -- A Short Biography of the Singerman -- Brochure -- What Can Be Accommodated -- The Singerman's Papa -- The Colour of the Singerman's Songs -- In Defence of Obeah -- Questions for Martin Carter -- Call this apocalyptic propaganda if you must -- For Cornelius Eady -- Thinkin Home -- Some Definitions for Light (III) -- Night Time -- The Lost Prophecy of Alexander Bedward -- Abracadabra -- Unsung -- Prologue -- De True Story of Rolling Calf -- De True Story of Nathaniel Morgan -- De True Story of Coolie Duppy -- De True Story of deLaurence -- A Praise Song for Sudden Lights -- A Creed -- A Smaller Song -- For the Pilots -- A Short History of Beds We Have Slept in Together -- The Law Concerning Mermaids -- What We Thought Were Signs -- On the Ninth Night -- The Singerman's Other Job -- A Parting Song -- A Nine Night Song -- Noctiphobia -- Some Definitions for Night.

Exploring the relationship between poetry and song, the pieces in this collection work to define the elemental human struggles of good versus evil and light against darkness. The poems take different shapes—newly forged dictionary definitions; praise-songs celebrating the Singerman in a Jamaican road gang; and simple narratives of ghosts, bandits, and other night creatures—and present an accomplished and progressive voice from a new generation of Caribbean writers.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.